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was for Love. He parred hole one, Lipscomb easily aced to win his first

major and the first “Invitational” tournament.

In the amateur division, Mike Baldoza smoothed his way through the
th
tournament and won by three strokes over Andy Young, even with a 5
round score of 35. The major win for Baldoza was his third up to this

time in his career. The previous year he won the Northern Open and
the National Championship in the amateur division. Mike Baldoza

would go on to be the first PPA Pro player to win $50,000 for one

tournament - winning the 1973 World Putting Championship.

The following year, the Southern Invitational traveled north, and the

official name changed to The National Invitational, held in Indianapolis,
Indiana on June 12 and 13. Interestingly, this tournament became an

“open” invitational. There were no formal, embossed letters sent out